MONROE — Custodians, state officials and school personnel from Newtown and Monroe were busy Sunday preparing a former intermediate school here to be the new home for Sandy Hook Elementary School students.

Newtown and Monroe, its neighbor to the south, finalized an agreement Sunday that will allow the more than 500 displaced Sandy Hook students to resume classes at the former Chalk Hill School on Fan Hill Road as early as Wednesday.

All Newtown schools — with the exception of Sandy Hook Elementary, the site of Friday's shooting — will be closed today, but will reopen Tuesday.

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